Oceans' odyssey
Subtitle: deep-sea shipwrecks in the English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar & Atlantic Ocean
By: edited by Greg Stemm & Sean Kingsley.
Contributors: Stemm, Greg.; Kingsley, Sean A.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781842174159
Subjects: Underwater archaeology -- English Channel; Underwater archaeology -- Gibraltar; Underwater archaeology -- Atlantic Ocean; Shipwrecks -- English Channel; Shipwrecks -- Gibraltar; Shipwrecks -- Atlantic Ocean
Description: "In ten papers, Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS Sussex (1694) and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory (1744) to the steamship SS Republic (1865) and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain. Their study reveals that the future of deep-sea wreck research has arrived, but also that many sites are at severe risk from destruction from the offshore fishing industry."--Publisher's description.